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KUWAIT, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Kuwait has ordered local Internet service providers to block online video-sharing website YouTube over clips that could offend Muslims.

“Since the website displays the Koran in the form of songs sung with the oud (stringed instrument) … and displays disrespectful pictures of the Prophet Mohammad … please proceed with immediate effect in blocking the website www.youtube.com,” read a copy of a memo obtained by Reuters. for more click here

South Africa was plunged into political turmoil yesterday as President Thabo Mbeki announced that he would quit within days, following a call by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for him to resign. His spokesman said he would step down once “all constitutional requirements have been met”. for more click here

COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 19 (UPI) — An “anti-Islamification congress” opened Friday in Germany, with protesters throwing paintballs at some of those attending.

The conference is sponsored by Pro-Koeln, a right-wing group in the city of Cologne, Deutsche Welle reported. The group, which was founded about four years ago, has been energized by approval of plans to build a large mosque in the city. for more click here

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Northern League, allies of centre-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, want to limit the growth of Islam in the centre of world Catholicism by blocking the construction of mosques through strict new regulations. for more click here

North American Jewish students morph plans for a brief protest against another expulsion into a full-day “orange” campaign to educate the public. for more click here

ISTANBUL // In a sign of his simmering anger about what he sees as baseless accusations against Islam in the West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has called on the international community to declare the enmity against Islam a “crime against humanity”.for more click here

BEIRUT — Iran failed to resolve lingering questions about alleged nuclear weapons research and modestly expanded its ability to produce sensitive radioactive material that could potentially be used for a bomb, says a report issued Monday by the U.N.’s atomic watchdog for its board of directors. for more click here

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe have reached a deal to share power.

After mediating four days of talks in Harare, South African President Thabo Mbeki said the agreement would be signed and made public on Monday. for more click here

The widely-disseminated Arab claim that the Temple Mount isn’t Jewish has been debunked – by the Supreme Moslem Council (Waqf), in a 1925 pamphlet. for more click here

The movie by Netherlands MP and leader of the extremist Party for Freedom Geert Wilders was banned in the Netherlands. It strongly censures Islam and attempts to show that the Koran is “the inspiration for intolerance, murder, and terrorism.” Eldad plans to screen select excerpts from the film in a news conference scheduled for tomorrow, 3 September, in one of the hotels in the capital in anticipation of a larger convention that will be held later on this year, entitled “Jihad Must Be Stopped; If Jerusalem Surrenders, Europe Will Be Next.” Eldad is expected to declare on that occasion the establishment of a new coalition of European parliamentarians, who he claims “share the recognition that the expansion of Islam constitutes a serious threat to Western civilization.” for more click here